PractiKal is a browser-based platform for creating technical assessments that mirror your real engineering environment.
It supports any stack, but focuses on core skills like problem-solving, debugging, and system design.
By using PractiKal to streamline your hiring process, you reduce the risk of costly mis-hires and save valuable time and engineering resources.

Key Differentiators

• Job specific assessments
• Tailored to your stack and workflows
• Tests practical skills and tacit knowledge, instead of academic theory and memorisation
• Respects engineers: Senior engineers are often turned off by algorithmic tests that feel disconnected from the work, especially when sent by non-technical recruiters, which can often lead to strong candidates disengaging (experienced personally by us)
• Excellent feedback to both employer AND candidate
• Faster and clearer hiring signals

Examples of “Real World” tasks and scenarios

Candidates aren’t asked to regurgitate memorised algorithms (the de facto standard in technical testing) – they’re asked to work through the kind of scenarios they’d actually face on the job.

That might mean:

• Diagnosing a production issue via SSH
• Spinning up a multi-service app in Kubernetes
• Debugging a broken API integration
• Tuning a Kafka pipeline for performance
• Writing or reviewing code with incomplete specs
• Responding to a simulated on-call incident

All scenarios are fully customisable – we can build them for you, or you can tailor them yourself using your own stack, tools, and workflows.

The possibilities are endless but the theme is the same: testing skills that actually matter.